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RECORD SALES ARE FORECAST FOR AUTO MAKERS

A Wall Street analyst says that the four major domestic car makers will post multibillion-dollar profits in the next two years as car and truck sales hit a new record.

Speaking at the Automotive News World Congress, David Healy of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in New York, said Wednesday that he projected profits of $7.4 billion for the auto makers in 1984.

The industry could sell 15.6 million cars and trucks worldwide that year, surpassing 1978's record of 15.4 million, he added.

He predicted profits of about $900 million for the four companies this year and about $5.5 billion next year. This year's profits will come only from the General Motors Corporation and the Chrysler Corporation, he added, because the Ford Motor Company and the American Motors Corporation will post losses.

Separately Automotive News reported today that the five major domestic auto makers would build an estimated 99,993 cars this week in the United States, up 33 percent from last week's 75,207.

The trade journal said that so far this year, the auto makers have built an estimated 3,429,513 cars, down 23.8 percent from last year's 4,500,830.

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A version of this article appears in print on August 27, 1982, on Page D00012 of the National edition with the headline: RECORD SALES ARE FORECAST FOR AUTO MAKERS. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe